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Showing posts with label nutritional. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Teenage pregnancy: Nutritional

The teen pregnancy creates special nutritional and dietary needs, different from those of pregnancy among adult women, because the teen body has not yet reached maturity, and continues to grow.

Studies on teenage pregnancies confirm the competition between the body of the adolescent mother and the fetus's body, this competition is of interest to food needs, nutrients, vitamins and minerals.

This explains why teens are twice as likely as adult women to have babies with low birth weight, and more likely than adult women to give birth preterit.

Another merit mention, diet in adolescents is generally more problematic than the diet of adults, by his poverty, and his dietary habits.